Glad you enjoyed them. A Face in the Crowd has to be my favorite movie of the 1950s alongside Night of the Hunter.

Very much. I discovered Trafic a couple months ago. NotH is classic... first ones coming to me are Sweet Smell of Success, Smiles of a Summer Night, all of Fellini's work from the 50's (particularly I Vitelloni), Paths of Glory, Shadows....

The war is over. Nobody won. Only the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the U.S, submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction and radiation. Captain dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) takes the Sawfish on a mission to see if an approaching radiation cloud has weakened, but returns with grim news: the cloud is lethal. With the days and hours dwindling, each person confronts the grim situation in his or her own way. One (Fred Astaire) realizes a lifetime Grand Prix ambition, another (Ava Gardner) reaches out for a chance at love. The final chapter of human history is coming to a close...

Indian by birth, but secretly adopted by whites, Rachel Zachary (Hepburn) soon becomes the target of lawless racism and brutality when her true identity is revealed. The Indians want her back, the local whites want her dead, and her only hope for survival is a man (Lancaster) who must face the most terrifying fight of his life-to save the woman he loves!

Extras include Jack Bond’s long-unseen South Bank Show on Herzog from 1982. (July)

DVDBeaver's Nosferatu blu-ray comparison shows excessive digital cleanup on Shout Factory's release compared to the BFI (credit to this thread on Criterion Forum). Not sure if this will be indicative of the transfers on the other Herzog titles in Shout Factory's box set...but I might go with the BFI release for Nosferatu and just to be sure.

DARK CRIMES, VOLUME TWO includes Lang's You and Me (1938) and Ministry of Fear (1944), and Castle's Undertow (1949) and Hollywood Story (1951). All but Ministry are available for the first time on DVD in this collection, which also contains multiple digital bonus features including an introduction by TCM host Ben Mankiewicz, behind-the-scenes photos, production stills, poster and lobby card galleries, and an original essay by Film Noir Foundation founder and president Eddie Muller. (Note that Ministry of Fear is also available on blu-ray from Criterion)

You and Me is also available as a standalone German release. Here's a blog post at Self-Styled Siren about the movie. Check out the opening sequence below.

November 4, 2014

The Sopranos: The Complete Series on blu-ray

All 86 episodes of the award winning show will be placed on 28 Blu-ray discs. The upcoming box set will feature more than five hours of bonus material including lost scenes, two roundtable dinners with the cast and crew, 25 audio commentaries as well as a new and exclusive featurette exploring how The Sopranos was created and ultimately transformed the TV landscape.

wilder i keep watching night tide while i fall asleep. that's my new nighttime movie. i always like to have a nighttime movie, though sometimes i don't, and right now it's night tide. examples of previous nighttime movies: spirited away, rebels of the neon god, tmnt ii: secret of the ooze. k

today i visited xixax and found conversations about whether or not people liked the last tv show they watched. one of the tremendous advantages to watching tv is everyone watches tv now so you can watch tv and become a fabulous conversationalist around the water machine. i had a plan to restore the hearts and souls of movie people, i had a plan to find conversational movie news, and today is tuesday so it took me one click to aicn and now

movies released today for home and anyway maybe you can download them or idk the important thing is we pretend this is really fucking important so we can call this the golden age of movie discussion; i'll start with the obvious

i'm so embarrassed. i'm sorry. i'm so sorry. my papers are a little ruffled and i planned and planned this presentation but boy i mightta blown my opening -- the birdcage. nervous cough, nervous cough. the birdcage, right. mike nichols directed, stars are omg. you can just look at the bluray and it'll tell you those things. omfg. i'm staying calm. the birdcage was shot by emmanuel lubezki, after he'd shot reality bites, before he shot sleepy hollow, and recently he shot gravity. it's cool that nichols and burton shared a dp, and the production designer was also shared by them -- before the birdcage, bo welch was the production designer for edward scissorhands and beetlejuice. this movie is fucking loaded with special features, and those special features are people. hell yeah. i last saw this movie when it was on hbo after coming out and that was a longtime ago. what's it like now? i have no fucking idea. do you? please tell me thank you and now the next

did you see great american actor mark wahlberg's latest movie? now, pain and gain got some hoopla, good for it, and transformers 4 will do whatever those movies do, great, but goddamnit, usa's greatest living actor played a soldier, a hero, a somethingsomething i forget, and did anyone even seen the movie???

where is reelist? where is polka? can i, i forget how this works is it #polka or @reelist. this is for people who admire the worst. for appreciating those who worked long and hard and carried with them spirit and strength to finish their movie for a mysterious reason. what did this movie give the world? goddamn mystery. it's played in los angeles multiple times but i haven't seen it once, and really if someone else doesn't also watch the movie than the whole plan is ruined. we got some shit we could be talking about here. i'm in. seems like a great reason for learning how to torrent

it's like this: through its ingredients, it's impossible for me to not appreciate the robocop remake. i haven't seen it and i'll probably redbox it, but what i appreciate is how an "outsider," a brazilian filmmaker, was brought into hollywood to make a big budget movie. of course i agree that everything the studio did to change how he was making the film was a bad move on the studio's part. hollywood you often make yourself worse while you try make yourself better. anyway i want to see this, these are the same ingredients which brought us the original. into this

how have you seen and appreciated boogie nights but you've never seen something like "In 1973, Lloyd Kaufman wrote and produced an erotic thriller set in the porn industry, that starred the exceedingly fun Mary Woronov and some of Andy Warhol’s troop" mary woronov is the name that sells me. plus i've been meaning to watch an entire troma movie at some point

Cool? Definitely a night time movie. Puts you in that foggy half-asleep state even when you're awake. To anyone reading these aren't backhanded compliments - the movie just requires total submission to its hazy dream logic (not in a Mulholland Drive way)

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rebels of the neon god

^ I just learned that existed and have been trying to make time to watch it but haven't found any this week. Also noticed you mentioned it in your short film thread. From the trailer I'm in love with the look.

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Never seen The Birdcage. Never had much interest?

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did you see great american actor mark wahlberg's latest movie? now, pain and gain got some hoopla, good for it, and transformers 4 will do whatever those movies do, great, but goddamnit, usa's greatest living actor played a soldier, a hero, a somethingsomething i forget, and did anyone even seen the movie???

No...

Why does he look like Tom Hanks on the cover?

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I've seen this it sucks.

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it's like this: through its ingredients, it's impossible for me to not appreciate the robocop remake. i haven't seen it and i'll probably redbox it, but what i appreciate is how an "outsider," a brazilian filmmaker, was brought into hollywood to make a big budget movie. of course i agree that everything the studio did to change how he was making the film was a bad move on the studio's part. hollywood you often make yourself worse while you try make yourself better. anyway i want to see this, these are the same ingredients which brought us the original. into this

There was an interview he gave in promotion of the movie where he talked about the ideas he was trying to inject, how he was going to make it different from the original and really try to stamp out his own thing, that had me on board. Of course I didn't end up seeing it. What happened with the studio? The usual?

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how have you seen and appreciated boogie nights but you've never seen something like "In 1973, Lloyd Kaufman wrote and produced an erotic thriller set in the porn industry, that starred the exceedingly fun Mary Woronov and some of Andy Warhol’s troop" mary woronov is the name that sells me. plus i've been meaning to watch an entire troma movie at some point

This is a Troma movie...? I've watched that trailer a few times in the past week thinking I'd be into it and looking for what I wasn't seeing before but it just didn't do anything for me. It's a Vinegar Syndrome release. I dig the cover? Think I like the idea of these vintage exploitation movies more than what they actually are.

Puts you in that foggy half-asleep state even when you're awakemovie just requires total submission to its hazy dream logic

agreed. and this is textured against california beaches, the sideshow, dennis hopper as an emotionally elastic young navy person, mystical fantasy, and these slow moods that drift by musically and through environment, through dennis hopper's curious eyes, through this dreamy whisper into my thoughts, for my dreams to be like movies and for my next day to become the dream, which well recently has been a strange american tale laced with the ponderable uncertainties of existence, and i like when i sense the strangeness to my life through the magic of movies